SUSPECTED international terrorist leader Osama Ben Laden is a renegade former employee of the United States Central Intelligence Agency — according to Libyan leader Moamer Kadhafi in an interview published on Friday. “Osama Ben Laden is one of those naive Moslems who were duped by the United States and were used to fight the former […]

THE Free State Cheetahs have included three of their Springboks in their line-up for Friday night’s Bankfin Currie Cup rugby match against the Gauteng Falcons at Brakpan. Naka Drotske, Andre Venter and Os du Randt will be back in Free State colours. Brendan Venter and Jannie de Beer were not considered as they are injured. […]

GAFFIE DU TOIT has been named at fullback while the fit-again captain and eighthman, Janneman Brand, and fly-half Boeta Wessels return to the Griqualand West line-up for their final round robin Bankfin Currie Cup rugby match against Western Province at the Absa Park Stadium on Saturday afternoon. With first-choice leftwing Jearus Nicholas out with an […]

KABAKA (King) Ronald Muwenda Mutebi II of Buganda — Uganda’s wealthiest province — wed 35-year-old Sylvia Nagginda Luswata at a colourful ceremony in Kampala on Friday attended by hundreds of people including Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni. The head of Uganda’s most influential kingdom exchanged vows with the Nabagereka (Queen), a journalist. At 43, Kabaka Mutebi […]

FORMER IBF world junior featherweight boxing champion Vuyani Bungu and five other top boxers at East London’s prestigious Eyethu stable face the biggest fight of their lives — against the Receiver of Revenue who has promised no mercy in recovering more than R1-million in unpaid taxes. And the boxers, through their trainer Mzi Mnguni who […]

BRONWEN ROBERTS, Johannesburg | Friday 9.45am SOME 10000 coal and gold miners are all due back at work on Friday after wage settlements were reached to end a week-long strike, the Chamber of Mines said on Thursday. The miners stopped work last Friday at South Africa’s two main coal producers and a handful of minor […]

THE Pretoria High Court on Thursday ordered that certain privileges be returned to awaiting-trial prisoners, The Star reports. The case was brought by five awaiting-trial prisoners who challenged last year’s decision by the Department of Correctional Services to clamp down on prisoners’ privileges. The order by Acting Judge Sam Maritz applies only to awaiting trial-prisoners, […]

NATIONAL police commissioner George Fivaz on Saturday disputed the findings of a recent report on crime, saying they “unfairly portray the SAPS” in a poor light. Fivas was reacting to a produced by the Institute for Security Studies that said that, of the crimes reported to the police, only a few result in the apprehension […]

THE war of words between two of the country’s top soccer officials, had little to do with the World Cup bid campaign, South Africa Bid Committee chief executive Danny Jordaan said on Sunday. Top club bosses lashed out at each other at the weekend after Jomo Sono alleged that Kaizer Motaung and Bid Committee chairman […]

LANCE KLUSENER, who made such a huge impact at the cricket World Cup, lost none of his enthusiasm ahead of yet another hectic season. He ran around Kingsmead with abandon — as did his national squad teammates — in preparation for the upcoming tours and occasional stints with the Natal Dolphins. He was the inspiration […]